hts, loads of aerobic equipment and a few different group exercise classes make up the entire facility. No spa, no pool, no basketball, just the basics. Just the way I like it. Even this bare bFitness centers are doing their absolute best to destroy our ability to build the body-mind connection through exercise. Like a bunch of lemmings, we are content to not only follow the trend but we are also the driving force behind taking what I believe is the largest step backwards in the history of fitness. It involves the amazing amounts of media distractions, specifically televisions, now common place in fitness centers. These distractions take away our ability to focus on what we went to the gym to do in the first place…exercise! Not only are we accepting this technology, we are demanding it as part of our exercise experience and fitness centers are listening.

The gym where I train is one of those really basic gyms. Decent resistance machines, some free weights, loads of aerobic equipment and a few different group exercise classes make up the entire facility. No spa, no pool, no basketball, just the basics. Just the way I like it. Even this bare b

we are also the driving force behind taking what I believe is the largest step backwards in the history of fitness. It involves the amazing amounts of media distractions, specifically televisions, now common place in fitness centers. These distractions take away our ability to focus on what we went to the gym to do in the first place…exercise! Not only are we accepting this technology, we are demanding it as part of our exercise experience and fitness centers are listening.

The gym where I train is one of those really basic gyms. Decent resistance machines, some free weights, loads of aerobic equipment and a few different group exercise classes make up the entire facility. No spa, no pool, no basketball, just the basics. Just the way I like it. Even this bare b

, now common place in fitness centers. These distractions take away our ability to focus on what we went to the gym to do in the first place…exercise! Not only are we accepting this technology, we are demanding it as part of our exercise experience and fitness centers are listening.

The gym where I train is one of those really basic gyms. Decent resistance machines, some free weights, loads of aerobic equipment and a few different group exercise classes make up the entire facility. No spa, no pool, no basketball, just the basics. Just the way I like it. Even this bare b

we are demanding it as part of our exercise experience and fitness centers are listening.

The gym where I train is one of those really basic gyms. Decent resistance machines, some free weights, loads of aerobic equipment and a few different group exercise classes make up the entire facility. No spa, no pool, no basketball, just the basics. Just the way I like it. Even this bare b

hts, loads of aerobic equipment and a few different group exercise classes make up the entire facility. No spa, no pool, no basketball, just the basics. Just the way I like it. Even this bare bones gym has its share of mind sucking boxes hanging from the ceiling…seven to be exact. In fact, they are positioned so there is virtually no area of the gym where you can not see what’s on the TV. Mind you the programming is really quality stuff…Sponge Bob Square Pants, Soaps, the Cooking Channel, QVC, ESPN, CNN…and the like. Yep, it’s a media dream come true and as far as I’m concerned it’s all crap.

But wait, there’s more! Let’s take it to the next level. I recently hit the road to put on a seminar on stress management and I stayed at a very nice hotel with a really good fitness center. This gym had all “state of the art” equipment, brand new and well thought out. It also had something I had never seen before, individual TV’s on each and every piece of aero